The Whiteness of the Soul

In many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of justice in the ermine of the judge and cont utes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk white steeds. Yet for all these accumulated associations with whatever is sweet and honourable and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something which strikes moreof panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood. This elusive quality it is which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds. Witness the white bear of the poles and the white shark of the tropics. What but their smooth